Farmhand seriously injured after his legs are trapped under falling bale of straw weighing a ton

A man trapped from the waist down by a falling bale of hay was rescued by firefighters, ambulance crews and a rapid response team at midday yesterday.

The 35-year-old had been filling up his lorry with grain near Fairford, Gloucestershire when the one tonne bale rolled on top of him.

Eleven firefighters, a team of six people from HART rapid response, two ambulance crews and an air ambulance assembled to pull the man free.

Entrapment: A hay bale weighing a ton trapped the man from the waist down

A spokesman for Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue service said the rapid response team was called to lift the hay bales.

He said: 'We assisted the ambulance and the HART team which came up from Filton (Bristol) literally to lift the bales off so they could actually pull him out from underneath that, and then obviously give him the treatment that they did.